Arts & Enaction Instalment #2

Hosted by Prof Alva Noë with Guest Jonathan Burrows

At the centre of our year devoted to Arts & Aesthetics in the Enactive Fold, Prof Alva Noë will be hosting a series of live encounters with renowned artists and creators from around the globe, opening up a dialogical space for thinking through questions of process, praxis, and the philosophies that drive their creative endeavours.

We launched the series on 28 May with Swiss choreographer and dancer Fabrice Mazliah, who led a rich conversation on movement, creativity, and the embodied dimensions of artistic practice.

Our next event takes place on Tuesday 29th July at 19:30 (CEST), and features a live conversation between Prof Alva Noë and acclaimed dancer-choreographer Jonathan Burrows. This session will be hosted in person at our European Summer Research Institute and will also be available via Zoom and livestreamed on YouTube. Audience members will have the opportunity to join in with questions.

Starting from the idea that art and philosophy are both ways of performing ourselves, and so enacting ourselves, these two meet to see if it is possible for them really to meet, to find common language, or uncommon language, for collaboration or mutual re-organisation. Alva won’t interview Jonathan and Jonathan won’t interview Alva. Each will attempt to be with the other, together, with curiosity. Will something be enacted? Will something happen? Can we learn something about the way art and philosophy are both potentially modalities of self-making and world-making through this encounter? Please join us for this experiment in intimacy, invention and discovery.

Register for the event on zoom here!

Tune in to our Youtube channel here!